Assistant Director, Center for Disaster Medicine

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Job Summary

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Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Leadership Responsibilities

• Serves as a leader for CDM within the MGB Department of Emergency Preparedness and Continuity
  • Co-leads development of strategic plans and work plans, ensuring growth of CDM initiatives, with a focus on healthcare preparedness programming.
  • Represents CDM by serving as a subject matter expert and/or lead on local, regional, and national working groups.
  • Coordinates with other leaders within the MGB Department of Emergency Preparedness and Continuity to support the overall mission and priorities for the Department.
• Leads engagement activities to strengthen healthcare preparedness across all of Region 1 and to support national readiness initiatives.
  • Develops and maintains effective working relationships with all partner organizations and with community and statewide/regional partners.
  • Represents the Region 1 RDHRS on national working groups and committees, including collaboration with other RDHRS Regions.
  • Provides direction to personnel to develop innovative educational modalities for all-hazard and disaster response for internal and Regional programs.
• Provides leadership for CDM’s Region 1 Medical Operations Coordination Center (MOCC).
  • Leads strategic goal setting and guides team members in project planning and implementation efforts.
  • Positions the RDHRS as a national leader in Regional healthcare preparedness.
  • Provides direction to CDM staff to guide Region 1 RDHRS MOCC readiness and to ensure that response plans and associated policies and procedures are in place and meet current, relevant regulatory and industry standards.
• Manages several CDM externally funded programs and contributes to development of proposals for new funding opportunities.
  • Coordinates with other team members to provide data for the annual operating budget, grant applications, and programmatic reports and to support grant documentation.

Response Operations

• Leads and/or supports activations of CDM response capabilities, including the RDHRS MOCC, as assigned. Ensures process improvement occurs post-response for any activations.
• Supports program response operations (following appropriate onboarding and training) by serving as an on-call Duty Officer for assigned periods of time.

Personnel and Human Resource Management

• Directly supervises staff managing CDMs healthcare preparedness work (approximately 3-6 FTEs).
• Leads healthcare preparedness staffing decisions, including hiring, training, and support of all team personnel.

Additional Job Details (if applicable)

Skills and Competencies Required

• Demonstrates exceptional people management and leadership.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience leading strategic and work planning initiatives.
• Significant experience leading complex programs and projects in healthcare readiness – including experience leading dynamic projects, setting realistic goals, and delivering quality work products.
• Proven experience leading teams in a complex, multidisciplinary environment.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to lead teams to complete assigned tasks in a given time period.
• Strong leadership skills, interpersonal skills, consensus building skills.
• Ability to provide clear direction and leadership in stressful and complex situations.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office suite applications; specifically, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Maturity and operational problem solving/decision making experience.
  • Ability to function effectively in stressful and complex situations.
• Experience in emergency management in a hospital and/or healthcare setting is required.
• Experience and working knowledge of the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS), including completion of ICS/NIMS 100,200, 700, 800 courses.
• Attention to detail and creation of exceptional work products.
• Experience with project management/task tracking software.

Qualifications

Education 

Bachelor's Degree: Required

Master's Degree: Preferred

Experience: 
Required: 5-7 years of relevant experience
 

Working Conditions

• Works in an office setting and potentially in the clinical environment of the Emergency Department and other patient care units.
• May be required to travel to offsite facilities and to attend meetings outside of regularly scheduled hours, as needed.
• May be required to report to the hospital or offsite locations outside of normal business hours to respond to events that require emergency support.
• Must be available by pager/cell phone outside of normal business hours during assigned on-call shifts.
• May be required to work extended shifts for multiple periods during emergency events.

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Mass General Brigham Competency Framework

At Mass General Brigham, our competency framework defines what effective leadership “looks like” by specifying which behaviors are most critical for successful performance at each job level. The framework is comprised of ten competencies (half People-Focused, half Performance-Focused) and are defined by observable and measurable skills and behaviors that contribute to workplace effectiveness and career success. These competencies are used to evaluate performance, make hiring decisions, identify development needs, mobilize employees across our system, and establish a strong talent pipeline.